Hot House Flowers (album)

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Hot House Flowers
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 18, 1984 (1984-12-18)
RecordedMay 30–31, 1984
StudioRCA Studio A, New York
Genre Jazz
Length41:33
Label Columbia
Producer George Butler, Steven Epstein
Wynton Marsalis chronology
Baroque Music for Trumpet
(1984)
Hot House Flowers
(1984)
Black Codes (From the Underground)
(1985)

Hot House Flowers is an album by Wynton Marsalis that won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist in 1985. [1] The album peaked at number 90 on the Billboard 200, number 53 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart, and number 1 on the Top Jazz Albums chart. [2]

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Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Stardust" Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish 4:07
2."Lazy Afternoon" Jerome Moross, John Latouche 5:03
3."For All We Know" John Frederick Coots, Sam M. Lewis 6:15
4."When You Wish upon a Star" Ned Washington, Leigh Harline 4:40
5."Django" John Lewis 4:52
6."Melancholia" Duke Ellington 5:46
7."Hot House Flowers"Wynton Marsalis5:46
8."I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" Al J. Neiburg, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds5:41

Personnel

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References

  1. "Hot House Flowers". AllMusic . Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  2. "Hot House Flowers: Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 950. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 131. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.